OT: Moral of the story….Don’t chase a shoplifter on your breaktime

[scaredyclassic]

i think a warning and docking a few days pay would ahve been sufficient.

[patientrenter]

[quote=scaredycat]i think a warning and docking a few days pay would ahve been sufficient.[/quote]

I agree. Any company that punishes its own people for helping the community at little or no cost to the company should itself be punished. But let’s not go overboard. I think it’s sufficient if the CEO is warned and made to give up a few % of his or her bonus.

[patientrenter]

[quote=scaredycat]i think a warning and docking a few days pay would ahve been sufficient.[/quote]

I agree. Any company that punishes its own people for helping the community at little or no cost to the company should itself be punished. But let’s not go overboard. I think it’s sufficient if the CEO is warned and made to give up a few % of his or her bonus.

[patientrenter]

[quote=scaredycat]i think a warning and docking a few days pay would ahve been sufficient.[/quote]

I agree. Any company that punishes its own people for helping the community at little or no cost to the company should itself be punished. But let’s not go overboard. I think it’s sufficient if the CEO is warned and made to give up a few % of his or her bonus.

[patientrenter]

[quote=scaredycat]i think a warning and docking a few days pay would ahve been sufficient.[/quote]

I agree. Any company that punishes its own people for helping the community at little or no cost to the company should itself be punished. But let’s not go overboard. I think it’s sufficient if the CEO is warned and made to give up a few % of his or her bonus.

[patientrenter]

[quote=scaredycat]i think a warning and docking a few days pay would ahve been sufficient.[/quote]

I agree. Any company that punishes its own people for helping the community at little or no cost to the company should itself be punished. But let’s not go overboard. I think it’s sufficient if the CEO is warned and made to give up a few % of his or her bonus.

[scaredyclassic]

i guess the problem is if the shoplifter had gotten hurt or killed–or more likely, an innocent bystander had been toppled — say a fragile senior citizen who was going on a power walk around the mall — then the pursuers and their employers could ahve been the subject of lawsuits and, well, the garbage that was being stolen would be just a tiny chip of the total damages.

just aint worth it for the store.

they definitely need to discourage employees from putting people in harm’s way over other people’s stuff particularly by going on crazy panicked chases around the mall.

and if the company doesn’t fire these pursuers, then if it happens again, the plaintiffs can argue, hey, they ahve a culture of being crazy pursuers. so maybe it was the right move, financially, to fire them. I mean, we as a community want companies to do the financially efficient thing, right?

but if the pursuers were suing the company for wrongful termination, sure seems like a normal jury would be sympathetic to the pursuers wonder if their employee handbook says you get fired for forcibly trying to stop fleeing shoplifters.

it’s just stuff, after all…and the guys who do the chasing aren’t always noble do-gooders, but overeager goofballs who welcome the opportunity to chase and give a good ass-whupping, which, altough probably deserved, is not really in their job description….

[scaredyclassic]

i guess the problem is if the shoplifter had gotten hurt or killed–or more likely, an innocent bystander had been toppled — say a fragile senior citizen who was going on a power walk around the mall — then the pursuers and their employers could ahve been the subject of lawsuits and, well, the garbage that was being stolen would be just a tiny chip of the total damages.

just aint worth it for the store.

they definitely need to discourage employees from putting people in harm’s way over other people’s stuff particularly by going on crazy panicked chases around the mall.

and if the company doesn’t fire these pursuers, then if it happens again, the plaintiffs can argue, hey, they ahve a culture of being crazy pursuers. so maybe it was the right move, financially, to fire them. I mean, we as a community want companies to do the financially efficient thing, right?

but if the pursuers were suing the company for wrongful termination, sure seems like a normal jury would be sympathetic to the pursuers wonder if their employee handbook says you get fired for forcibly trying to stop fleeing shoplifters.

it’s just stuff, after all…and the guys who do the chasing aren’t always noble do-gooders, but overeager goofballs who welcome the opportunity to chase and give a good ass-whupping, which, altough probably deserved, is not really in their job description….

[scaredyclassic]

i guess the problem is if the shoplifter had gotten hurt or killed–or more likely, an innocent bystander had been toppled — say a fragile senior citizen who was going on a power walk around the mall — then the pursuers and their employers could ahve been the subject of lawsuits and, well, the garbage that was being stolen would be just a tiny chip of the total damages.

just aint worth it for the store.

they definitely need to discourage employees from putting people in harm’s way over other people’s stuff particularly by going on crazy panicked chases around the mall.

and if the company doesn’t fire these pursuers, then if it happens again, the plaintiffs can argue, hey, they ahve a culture of being crazy pursuers. so maybe it was the right move, financially, to fire them. I mean, we as a community want companies to do the financially efficient thing, right?

but if the pursuers were suing the company for wrongful termination, sure seems like a normal jury would be sympathetic to the pursuers wonder if their employee handbook says you get fired for forcibly trying to stop fleeing shoplifters.

it’s just stuff, after all…and the guys who do the chasing aren’t always noble do-gooders, but overeager goofballs who welcome the opportunity to chase and give a good ass-whupping, which, altough probably deserved, is not really in their job description….

[scaredyclassic]

i guess the problem is if the shoplifter had gotten hurt or killed–or more likely, an innocent bystander had been toppled — say a fragile senior citizen who was going on a power walk around the mall — then the pursuers and their employers could ahve been the subject of lawsuits and, well, the garbage that was being stolen would be just a tiny chip of the total damages.

just aint worth it for the store.

they definitely need to discourage employees from putting people in harm’s way over other people’s stuff particularly by going on crazy panicked chases around the mall.

and if the company doesn’t fire these pursuers, then if it happens again, the plaintiffs can argue, hey, they ahve a culture of being crazy pursuers. so maybe it was the right move, financially, to fire them. I mean, we as a community want companies to do the financially efficient thing, right?

but if the pursuers were suing the company for wrongful termination, sure seems like a normal jury would be sympathetic to the pursuers wonder if their employee handbook says you get fired for forcibly trying to stop fleeing shoplifters.

it’s just stuff, after all…and the guys who do the chasing aren’t always noble do-gooders, but overeager goofballs who welcome the opportunity to chase and give a good ass-whupping, which, altough probably deserved, is not really in their job description….

[scaredyclassic]

i guess the problem is if the shoplifter had gotten hurt or killed–or more likely, an innocent bystander had been toppled — say a fragile senior citizen who was going on a power walk around the mall — then the pursuers and their employers could ahve been the subject of lawsuits and, well, the garbage that was being stolen would be just a tiny chip of the total damages.

just aint worth it for the store.

they definitely need to discourage employees from putting people in harm’s way over other people’s stuff particularly by going on crazy panicked chases around the mall.

and if the company doesn’t fire these pursuers, then if it happens again, the plaintiffs can argue, hey, they ahve a culture of being crazy pursuers. so maybe it was the right move, financially, to fire them. I mean, we as a community want companies to do the financially efficient thing, right?

but if the pursuers were suing the company for wrongful termination, sure seems like a normal jury would be sympathetic to the pursuers wonder if their employee handbook says you get fired for forcibly trying to stop fleeing shoplifters.

it’s just stuff, after all…and the guys who do the chasing aren’t always noble do-gooders, but overeager goofballs who welcome the opportunity to chase and give a good ass-whupping, which, altough probably deserved, is not really in their job description….

[Raybyrnes]

Some of the responses here how how far in the wrong direction we have traveled. In middle eastern countries people hands are cut off for stealing yet here we are trying to denomize the 2 employees for their response. Complete BS. If more people were proactive citizens and those stealing realized they faced the risk of a complete ass kicking then maybe there would be a lot less theft. Less theft would mean that we as consumers would not have to pay for all the security measures that companies are faced with ad therefor price into the cost of goods sold.

I am not going to encourage this behavior but I would be hard pressed to write them up or take any action.

[Raybyrnes]

Some of the responses here how how far in the wrong direction we have traveled. In middle eastern countries people hands are cut off for stealing yet here we are trying to denomize the 2 employees for their response. Complete BS. If more people were proactive citizens and those stealing realized they faced the risk of a complete ass kicking then maybe there would be a lot less theft. Less theft would mean that we as consumers would not have to pay for all the security measures that companies are faced with ad therefor price into the cost of goods sold.

I am not going to encourage this behavior but I would be hard pressed to write them up or take any action.

[Raybyrnes]

Some of the responses here how how far in the wrong direction we have traveled. In middle eastern countries people hands are cut off for stealing yet here we are trying to denomize the 2 employees for their response. Complete BS. If more people were proactive citizens and those stealing realized they faced the risk of a complete ass kicking then maybe there would be a lot less theft. Less theft would mean that we as consumers would not have to pay for all the security measures that companies are faced with ad therefor price into the cost of goods sold.

I am not going to encourage this behavior but I would be hard pressed to write them up or take any action.

[Raybyrnes]

Some of the responses here how how far in the wrong direction we have traveled. In middle eastern countries people hands are cut off for stealing yet here we are trying to denomize the 2 employees for their response. Complete BS. If more people were proactive citizens and those stealing realized they faced the risk of a complete ass kicking then maybe there would be a lot less theft. Less theft would mean that we as consumers would not have to pay for all the security measures that companies are faced with ad therefor price into the cost of goods sold.

I am not going to encourage this behavior but I would be hard pressed to write them up or take any action.

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